Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2014
Andreas Lindh has discovered serious vulnerabilities in an unknown number of 3G/4G USB modems that can be exploited by attackers for spear phishing attacks. The researcher Andreas Lindh has discovered serious vulnerabilities in an unknown number of 3G and 4G USB modems that can be exploited by attackers to steal user’s credential. The expert has found a Cross Site […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2014
Interviewed with Mark Collier, CTO and VP of Engineering at Securelogix to better understand the topic of Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS). I briefly interviewed Mark Collier, CTO and VP of Engineering at SecureLogix (Www.securelogix.com) on the topic of Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS). Mark just completed the Hacking Exposed: UC and VoIP book, which covers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2014
A post on cybersecurity written by Larry Karisny, director of ProjectSafety.org,a cybersecurity expert,advisor,consultant, writer and industry speaker. Most of the recent attention on cybersecurity has been directed toward the disclosure of NSA activities and recent corporate breaches now reaching record-breaking levels. Both the public and private sectors are beginning to witness how devastating cyber breaches […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2014
A serious vulnerability inside Mozilla Thunderbird Gecko engine allows hackers to insert malicious code into Emails to exploit recipient browser. A critical vulnerability affects the email client Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.6, the popular application has a validation and filter bypass vulnerability that could be exploited by hackers to bypass the filter that prevents HTML tags from being used in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2014
Security analysts at Intelligence firm InterCrawler published the details of the investigation on recent attack against CNN Blogs and social media accounts. Recently a few social media accounts belonging to CNN and blogs were compromised, including CNN’s main Facebook account, CNN Politics’ Facebook account and the Twitter pages for CNN and CNN’s Security Clearance. At the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized the database of Tormail service for its investigation on cybercrime and illegal online hacking. Do you have used the Tormail Email service to protect your privacy? Are you searching for anonymity online? Well, the revelation regarding Tor Stinks project and many recent news on the spying activity discovered on Tor Traffic made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2014
Michaels Stores Inc., US-based arts-and-crafts retailer, confirmed it is investigating a possible data breach affecting customer cards. Michaels Stores Inc., US-based arts-and-crafts retailer maybe is the last victim of a massive data breach, a few weeks after the hack of US retailer Target and Neiman Marcus. Michaels Stores Inc has more than 1,250 stores across the United […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2014
Aviv Raff, CTO at Seculert, confirmed that the attackers have penetrated into the network of Israeli Defense accessing to 15 computers. Israeli Defense is another illustrious victim of spear phishing attack, just on Friday Microsoft suffered a similar attack and attackers breached the email accounts of its staff accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Reuters agency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2014
The cyber security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has found a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in a Yahoo server hosting numerous sub-domains. The cyber security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has found a serious flaw, as explained by the analyst the website is affected by a Remote Code Execution vulnerability. During the test Hegazy discovered first a Remote PHP Code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2014
Attackers breached the email accounts of Microsoft staff, probably with a spear phishing attack, accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Spear phishing attacks are within most insidious attacks for private companies and organizations, they are primarily caused for data breach occurred in the last couple of years. Despite the awareness of this type of cyber […]
